what browser do you use?

IE all the way!!!

I have used Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox as well. I run XP Pro on all my comps, and IE seems to be quicker and more reliable for me than any of the others. I agree with Daseal, Netscape is crap. Netscape is basically Mozilla and I think Netscape just tried to become too feature rich which ended up bogging down their software. Firefox is nice because its just a browser like IE, but is not as quick as IE.

As for the security holes in IE, if you're a responsible internet user who knows what you're doing, you'll have no problems with it. Keep your firewall and antivirus stuff up to date and you should be fine. And by 'up to date', I don't mean every 6 months. Also, I doubt you get any spyware through IE, daseal. If you use Weatherbug, AIM, etc, those software packages come packaged with spyware. Check out the EULA.

Ad-aware is a great tool.

As for me and my computer, we shall use the microsoft.

...Ad-aware is a great tool.


I second that. LavaSoft Ad-Aware is a fantastic tool. For those of you not using it, you can get it here for free.... I highly highly recommend it.

http://www.lavasoft.de/

When you run a scan, set up the options to run a "Deep Scan" (I think that's what it's called). It will remove possibly harmful objects from your registry as well as any SpyWare .EXE's that may have been surreptitiously installed on your hard drive.

Also, never never never (and I mean never) install WeatherBug. That thing is just a can of worms!

Call me a nerd, but I wrote my own 'weatherbug' that uses the same information source as the real weatherbug, but without the ads or spyware of course. :D

Call me a nerd, but I wrote my own 'weatherbug' that uses the same information source as the real weatherbug, but without the ads or spyware of course. :D


OK. You're a nerd.

Hey man... you asked!

:D


(but being a nerd myself, that's pretty cool!)

I usually use opera and have foudn it to be teh best feature packed browser. I like keeping my screen resolution very high so its nice having a browser that i can change the zoom to make eveyrthign bigger

Yeah, I doubt I got it through IE too, Cpayne. However, I do know that there are holes people like to try to exploit in IE to get Spyware installed. I run a mixture between Ad-Aware and Spybod S&D. Between the two I am able to get most Spyware programs. The problem I'm having now is every time I startup I have a couple programs that start back up. Unfortunatly I'm too lazy to find them and get rid of them, and it's time for a reformat anyways.